Improvement in dry measures



J. T. OAP'EWELL. Dry Measure No. 196,192; Patented Co t. 16, 1877.

JOSEPH T. OAPEIVELL, OF WOODBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WALTER S. GAIEWELL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRY MEASURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,192, dated October 16, 1877; application filed February 20, 1877.

To all whom it may concern: to press upon the inner and bind the two to geth- Be it known that I, J OSEPHT. GAPEWELL, er; secondly, in a shot or powder charger comof Woodbury, in the county of Litchfield and posed of two cylinders, so as to be extended or State of Connecticut, have invented a new contracted in telescopic form, and with gradua- Improvement in Powder and Shot Measure; tions arranged upon the surface of the inner and I do hereby declare the following when cylinder, and relative to a certain point on the taken in connection with the accompanying outer cylinder, to indicate the capacity of the drawings, and the letters of reference marked measure. thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact descripa is the outer cylinder; 1), the inner, fitting tion of the same, and which said drawings conclosely the interior of the outer cylinder, and stitute part of this specification, and represo as to slide freely therein in telescopic form.

sent, in-- The cylinder to is here represented as open at- Figure 1, a perspective view, and in Fig. 2 both ends. The cylinder 1) (the inner cylinder) the inner part detached. is PTOVltlQd with a head; but this order may This invention relates to an improvement in be reversed-that is, the open cylinder inside, measures for charges of powder, shot, &c., and instead of outside. i especially to that class which are made adjusta- The outer cylinder is constructed with a able, and consist of one cylinder within another socket, 0, suitable for the introduction of a and working in telescopic form, so that drawset-screw, cl. This set-screw is a part of the ing the'one from the other extends the length handle 0, and, passing through the outer cylof the measure, and correspondingly increases inder, bears against the inner, so as to secure the contents. the two in any position to which they may In the usual construction of this class of be set relatively to each other. Therefore, by

measures the outer cylinder has been condrawing" the inner cylinder from the outer, struetedwithavertical slot, and the inner with the capacity of the measure i 'll be accorda stud corresponding to the said slot, and from ingly extended, and the two held together by v the side of such slot notches have been out at the set-screw. 1 short distances from each other, so that the To indicate the capacity of the measure, the outer cylinder moved on the inner until the .graduations are marked on the surface of the pin came oppositeacertain notch,thenthe outer inner cylinder, as seen in Fig. 1, and relatively cylinder turned until the pin would enter such to the edge of the outer cylinder. Hence only notch, to prevent the extension or contraction the figures which are outside of the outer cylof the measure. The figures indicating the inder are exposed, and that one next the inner quantity are arranged at each of the said cylinder indicates the capacity. Thus the lianotches, and'are therefore necessarily on the bility to mistake which occurs when all the outer cylinder. figures are exposed is avoided, as is also the slot The object of this invention is twofoldwhich has heretofore been found necessary in first, to dispense with the slots and notches; the outer cylinder.

f and, secondly, to arrange the figures upon the I do not broadly claim an adjustable open inner cylinder, where they are less exposed cylinder for measuring purposes, as such, I am than upon the outer cylinder, and offer less aware, is not new.

liability to mistake in setting the charge; and I claim-- the invention consists, first, in a pair. of cylin- 1. The herein-described shot and powder ders, one within the other, one constructed with measure, consisting of the two cylinders, one a head, and the other open at both ends, so as to constructed with a head and the other with slide telescopically over the one, and the exte- -both ends open, and one sliding within the rior cylinder provided withascrew-socket, into other in telescopic form, combined with the whichthehandle, acting as aset-screw,isturncd handle, serving also as a set-screw to secure thetwo cylindefs in theit'desired' relative pothe adjl l'stmentof the measure are placed upon V V sition, substantially as described. 7 'the surface of the innercylinder, substantially '1 2; Ina shot ehargerconsisting of two eyl-i as described."- inders', one arranged within the other, other V iopenya'n'd so asto move one within the other 7 V JOHN E. EARLE,

in telescopic fornnvhen the gIiLdllilfiOllS for! '7 CLARA BROUGHTON;

' r JOSEPH T. CAPEWELL, 7 head of one closed and both ends of the other Witnesses: 

